Part of the Family
Tonight as I get ready to sleep, I am filled with an emotion that is difficult to describe. It's one that I am familiar with, one that I have felt so many times since Mothers Day 2012. Something like Contentment, Peace, and Longing all rolled into one. Love like I could never have imagined filling my heart and spilling out. Love being poured into me. And no, I don't mean romantic love. Familial love. From a family that didn't know me from Eve four years ago. I know that is only the power of God that has allowed their hearts to be so open and accepting of the small, quiet little girl who got attached to their wife and mother quite by accident. See, it would be one thing if they were my family legally, or guardians. But I go home every night to another house, another home, another family. A biological family. And while I love them very much, my non-biological family means so much to me because they have accepted me as an unofficial part of the family. Tonight, I needed help.